She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not

The Civil War Gazet is running a series of letters by A.A. Harrison, a Company D 4th Regiment, Kentucky Calvary Volunteers soldier (union)
I recommend going over to read them. They give you a feel of the complete isolation these men must have felt from their families and the importance of letters in keeping them informed on the home front.
The only thing that reached the men in certainty were rumors of the goings on at home, with danger lurking just around the corner from his family, in the form of guerrillas, and no news or letters reaching him - This man must have been frantic with worry.

I find it hard to picture or completely understand how cut of they really were - telephones, cell phones, electronic media and Internet are so taken for granted now days, that it is impossible to imagine living without any of those and not knowing what is going on with your loved ones.

This is an exerpt from a letter writen to his wife on August 12th 1862:

I have not received a letter from you since I come back. I can’t tell what is the matter. It cannot be that you have forgotten me as soon as I was out of sight. If so I will quit writing. The other boys here are getting letters all the time from the same neighborhood and it is strange that my letters can’t come as well as others. If you have not wrote yet I want you to write and tell me the reason and if you have wrote you must write again and keep writing until some of your letters gets through for I cannot endure the suspense. I have written four or five letters since I came back. I don’t know whether you have got them or not.

Although we don’t know if he eventually got letters from his, we do know that she must have loved him a lot because she kept his letters till her dying day, and stayed with him till his demise in March 1914.